BUTTERFISH as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) butterfish is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  2. Meaning
    • small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) butterfish is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s)
  3. Meaning
    • any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
    Hypernyms(s) butterfish is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower